Hans Albert Einstein

Well, that's good.

Hans Albert died in 1973.

Did Hans Albert have any kids? [keyboard clicking] 'Cause they would be alive today.

Oh my God, he did.

There are descendants of Albert Einstein alive right now? Thus- Us? Is that not crazy? Holy aura.

It is an embalmed, mummified human body whose tissues still contain arsenic from an early 20th century embalming process, shellacked with layer after layer of carnival paint.

there's a 1924 penny and old exhibition tickets in the mouth clues from the body's decades on the carnival circuit whoever this man was he had been on display for decades passed from hand to hand painted and repainted hung and re-hung nobody who worked the fun house in 1976 had any idea he was ever a person at all.

The coroner's office has one question.

Who is he? History is more than just dates and names in dusty books.

Not every story on this list is one of exploitation.

This one is somehow stranger.

because the person it happened to actually wanted it.

Jeremy Bentham was an English philosopher, best known as the founder of modern utilitarianism, who died in London in 1832.